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a.lvov – :
Bonjour Jean Marc Sinan un grand créateur n’est pas mort! il s’occupe de CENTRE D’ART CONTEMPORAIN JEAN-MARC SINAN
Peintre-architecte-designer-souffleur de verre-sculpteur-soudeur-ébéniste-créateur de senteurs…….
Malloy77 – :
An other chypre… One can not have enough chypre perfumes if one was born in the seventies, and had been exposed to these beauties at a young age.
taho – :
Oakmoss, rosewood, patchouli, vetiver, and roses.
Most likely the roses, oakmoss blend with chunks of rosewood, patchouli, the doses of vetiver. I do detect ylang, aldehydes, and coriander, so are the carnations, and the amber. Lily of the valley, and most of the notes in here are there.
It’s not bad tho, but i had high hopes since the reviews were explaining something other than what i am sniffing! i mean overly hyped reviews for something quite normal comparing to other fragrances that has been released on that era. To me, this fragrance is a meh.
Edit (after 20 minutes in) it changed dramatically! it became quite tough with huge rough oakmoss, patchouli, & vetiver with HUGE doses of roses, and incense! This is a beast as it became quite dry and strong! to be honest, now it became quite impressive! Rose Vetiver Patchouli with oakmoss base at the first degree for those who loves dry roses.
asjfueanthg – :
My mother would wear this perfume when I was little back in the 80s. My dad, God rest him, was obsessed with smelling it on her.
Up to today she keeps on telling me that it very much resembled to Yveresse by YSL, but with much greater longevity, sillage and sophisticated scent.
Too bad Jean Marc Sinan had to die so suddenly a few years after the perfume’s release, which caused its discontinuance…
Anyhow, it must have been a great perfume since it has been discontinued for over 20 years but we are still commenting on it!
gruzoperevozof – :
I got a bottle when i was 17. It was heavy for a teenager. I gave it to my mother but now when i’m 43 i love to have it again
14101978D – :
As close to Bakir as I have yet to come. Testing today a mini vintage perfume. This one is so so classy, so old world. This is what Ava Gardner would smell like. WOW. I am going now to look on ebay. Takes me awayyyy…this is a Back to the Future Perfume because it smells retro and takes you back but makes you dream also. Dreaming I´m on a large yacht awaiting my next iced champage, the staff refreshening the bowls of fresh flowers, sea air, whafts of perfume and suntan oil.
Dianor – :
This was an early Christmas present that I received from an admirer & gentleman caller after Thanksgiving dinner at my parent’s home in Charleston South Carolina. I’m so fortunate to have thoughtful friends who remember I have a passion for perfume. Sinan is a strikingly beautiful, luxurious and gorgeous, exotic & romantic perfume. She is classified as an Oriental and I can totally see that. I was presented with the miniature dab on bottle, with the parfum being the strongest concentration. They sell it on ebay as an eau de toilette spray as well. The minis are what you want to get because you experience the full blossom of this Oriental beauty. The fragrance’s charming scent is evocative of the Arabian Nights: flying carpets, thief of Baghdad, Aladdin & the princess, evil sorcerers, palaces over the dunes & sands, silvery moons over gardens of jasmine, Persian mystics in turbans with a jewel on it, magic, and romance and adventure. Oh how I love where this perfume can take me! This is definitely a fragrance to fire up your imagination if you’re an actor/actress or writer/novelist. I’m a professional entertainer and cruise ship performer always in different costumes so frags like this always thrill me. I would wear this one as Jasmine from Disney’s Aladdin.
This is an exquisite floral Oriental and yes, she is unisex. This is not a delicate powdery scent for dainty princesses but instead she is a majestic Empress, a sultan’s cologne. Sinan at heart is aromatic, smoky and musky, woodsy, spicy and a bit masculine. It does not smell like any other cologne or perfume I’ve experienced even if the reviews here compare it to other scents like Shalimar Diva by Ungaro or Bal a Versailles. It is totally it’s own unique scent. Sinan is outdated I don’t know what year it’s from but it smells like a stronger floral from the late 70’s. There is something of a nod to Shalimar but only in the way it opens. I detect a citrus scent with bergamot orange and mandarin but she does not remind me too much of Shalimar because it turns spicy and floral rather quickly whereas Shalimar takes a while for those citrus notes to dissipate. This is a brief opening prelude with bergamot & a green note that smells like basil. I looked it up and apparently it has coriander which is a bit on the cooking herb side. She also contains soapy and soft aldehydes. Nothing heavy. Instead the opening feels like a shower of gold. Very much like out of a fairy tale. I picture a genie appearing out of th bottle in a shower of gold.
The development of the florals ranges from slightly powdery iris and rose, to a lush carnation and jasmine and a sweet ylang ylang. There is also a green lily of the valley. She is far more floral than Shalimar ever could be. A lovely bouquet of flowers but they do not take over the fragrance either. I smell mainly a sweet geranium mingling with lily of the valley and a backdrop of powder of something like iris, rose & jasmine. Lovely and delicate florals.
The floral scents are really very pleasant. Nothing about the scent is overpowering, everything’s perfect.
The dry down is the unisex part with woods, musk, patchouli & incense. I can’t tell each note apart but it smells mainly of a dry patchouli with a musk that feels warm resinous and smoky with a veil of incense. The last part of the performance of this little beauty is evocative of the night. She smells of the Sahara desert when it’s dark and a full moon is over the dunes. The musk accord is older in it’s style so yes its VERY musky – and it conjures up images of little desert foxes huddling together for warmth while sleeping. She can be worn over coats and furs (I wear faux furs) in the cold winter months. She gets progressively warmer and deeper almost but not quite the Bal a Versailles musk others have mentioned.
Beautiful & classy, a perfume to wear for evening affairs. I like to wear perfumes like this. They are not too sugary and sweet, not fresh and not too powdery. They are well made Orientals for women who love to escape into their perfume. She is very elegant and glamorous and I will enjoy wearing Sinan to my gigs where I perform in evening wear. I’m enchanted by this mystical perfume of magic.
Thank You Kent
Nuddinasats – :
Sinan de Jean-Marc
This is a gorgeous 1980s power perfume. It’s not an Oriental as much as it is a floral aldehyde. I have a beautiful luxury edition with a fitted case and a miniature bottle. It’s a spicy-floral scent of carnation, jasmine, ylang, resinous amber, patchouli and musk.
From the beginning I detected aldehydes and bergamot. The opening is rather boring and very typical of most perfume openings. The florals are the big players. I love the carnation in this perfume and the rose-geranium-iris pairing, which gives it a little touch of powder but enough to make you swoon. The florals are sweet and soapy but gradually turn into the musk. This sometimes reminds me of a more pleasant and lighter Bal a Versailles.
Toward the dry down there’s an incense. It smells luxurious and elegant, like a Persian prince who is dressed head to toe in Oriental finery: a bejeweled crown with a peacock feather, three necklaces atop each other, ruby rings, and satiny clothes. This is a showy and ostentatious Oriental man – in women’s perfume. The fragrance is unisex and can wear like a man’s cologne at the dry down. This is also somewhat reminiscent of Shalimar.
Beautiful!
timoxa25 – :
Very similar to Ungaro’s Diva but with a decidedly more Oriental flair. If you’re a fan of Oriental fragrances and vintage fragrances, you gotta get this perfume. The amber glows like gold and over it are floral scents of jasmine, rose, iris and ylangylang. It’s very luxurious, deep, sweet and heady with incensed flowers. Love the crescent moon shaped stopper. A classic.
genrix1 – :
In 1986 when I was 18 I was given a bottle of Sinan. At the time it seemed a heavy smell for me, very brooding and sophisticated. I preferred more floral light hearted scents. Now that I am in my 40’s I wish I had that bottle again. I think I would appreciate its dark mystery.
july – :
after careful testing and contrasting,i find that the sinan and the lune are the same smell and the lune is deeper,sounder and long lasting.so get the lune,it’s cheaper and more.
ogs839bedyWelty – :
This was one of the most beautiful long lasting floral orientals; sexy and elegant at the same time, strong but never too overpowering. I will never understand why it was discontinued – sorely missed!
scandia.v – :
This perfume smells just asa good in the bottle as it does on your skin. It just finishes way too fast. Its s nice perfume but relatively weak compared to some of the older ones. Its very approachable and would make a really great date scent.
The first notes are nice and musky with some sweetness. The finish is all sweet and softness.
PI-PIP – :
Think Deneuve and Yves Saint Laurent’s “Y”, only slightly more mysterious, deep and seductive. The oakmoss, patchouli, coriander, incense opening and the the soft florals over oakmoss drydown are to die for. I thought nothing could top my beloved Deneuve and Y, but I’m starting to think that this one can. I haven’t stopped wearing it since I was gifted a vintage EDT mini last week. Now I’m hunting for the parfum.
Dobriy kot – :
Woody but fresh scent; like incense and oak moss mixed with an old-fashioned soap bar.
It may not sound very intriguing but this is one of few perfumes I’d cover my body with if I had a full-size bottle of it.
yurginas – :
In 1984, at the age of sixteen I made my first grown-up fragrance purchase at the Frederick and Nelson perfume counter. I left behind all my previous favorites that day: Sweet Honesty, Love’s Baby Soft, Pavlova- all chosen for me at one time or another, and perfectly nice for little girls. That day I chose for myself. The bottle of Sinan de Jean Marc Sinan was indescribably exotic and rare looking next to all the others, so 1001 nights. I still remember the first sniff- a shower of golden silk, midnight skies, twinkling stars, desert princes on horseback, Bedouin horse races across the sands, pampered life in a Sultan’s Harem, seduction/ravishment, love…and every other fantasy that a teenage girl who read way too much, might have…It was heady stuff!! I have never loved another fragrance as much. I have searched for years for a replacement, but nothing compares.